"9.25am until December 2010. In January 2011 the omnibus moved to Saturday mornings on ITV at 9.25am. During the Rugby World Cup, which took place in New Zealand, matches had to be broadcast on a Saturday morning, so the omnibus moved to Saturday lunchtimes/afternoons during September and October 2011. However, as of 22 October 2011 the omnibus moved back to Saturday mornings at 9.25am on ITV. From January 2012 the omnibus was no longer broadcast on ITV after four years, however it remains on ITV2. On 30 June 2011 it was confirmed that ""Coronation Street"" would return to its traditional"
"the UK's longest-running television soap opera, ""Coronation Street"", for which he was paid £6. The theme, originally entitled ""Lancashire Blues"" was commissioned by Peter Taylor, at De Wolfe Music, for a new television soap opera called ""Florizel Street"". The name of the serial was changed to ""Coronation Street"" because cast member William Roache (Ken Barlow) could not pronounce the title and because it was felt that the name bore a resemblance to Zoflora, a popular floral concentrated disinfectant. The cornet player Ronnie Hunt (playing ""trumpet"" on the recording) found the recording session frustrating, as Spear insisted on many takes before"
"that he knew that the drama, then called ""Florizel Street"", would be a success when a cleaning lady at Granada named Agnes was transfixed by the pilot airing on a closed-circuit television set in Elton's office. The show was renamed ""Coronation Street"" when Agnes contended that ""Florizel"" sounded like the name of a disinfectant. Elton finally persuaded sceptical network managers to proceed with the blue-collar drama, and they grudgingly gave the go-ahead for 13 episodes. Elton left Granada in 1963 to return to Canada. By this point, Coronation Street was one of the highest rated programmes on British television. Warren"
"street where the soap is set, ""Coronation Street"", which also serves as the programme's title. The soap was originally titled ""Florizel Street"" when it was commissioned. Roache reportedly could not pronounce Florizel, so the name of the street was changed to ""Coronation Street"". By 1984, Ken was the only character from the original cast who remained in the serial. He became the only original character to remain with the show continuously into 2010, its 50th year. Roache has revealed that Ken's role in the serial was threatened in 1964, when producer Tim Aspinall, who was dubbed the ""mad axe-man"", took"
"the brewery was forced to change the name as the go-ahead had already been given for the street to be named Coronation Street. When Lieutenant Philip Ridley returned from active service in the Boer War, the pub was named in his honour. In 1918, to celebrate the return of the soldiers from World War I, the apostrophe was removed, thus making it ""The Rovers Return"". When ""Coronation Street"" began in 1960, the signage of the pub read ""The Rovers Return"" but at some point was changed to read ""Rovers Return Inn"", without a ""The"". Originally, the pub was divided into"
"and demanded to be able to create something about what they ""knew""—in the words of Smith—""London - today!"" Together they came up with the idea of a serial set in the East End of London in a Victorian Square. When casting for the show, Smith had the guideline 'Only genuine Eastenders need apply'; it was this that gave her the idea for the name of the show, which would be called ""EastEnders"" after other names were rejected. Originally the show was to be called ""Eastenders"", but Jonathan Powell, then Head of Drama at the BBC who had commissioned the show,"
"initially intended to take place in an actual Los Angeles neighborhood until the production team realized the difficulties that would ensue. Instead they chose Colonial Street, a backlot street set at Universal Studios Hollywood. The house sets on Colonial Street had been used in numerous film and television productions as early as 1946. Many of the sets, whose styles ranged from contemporary to Victorian to ranch, were remodeled to create a uniform neighborhood. Cherry and production designer Thomas A. Walsh wanted the street to recall the Eisenhower era and convey traditional American values, but appear modern at the same time."
"decided to rename Coronation Street Alf Roberts Street in his honour, and Alf was hurt when the locals opposed it. He was also made an OBE for services to local Government. When Alf became mayor for the second time, Audrey declined to be mayoress, and Alf asked Betty Turpin (Betty Driver) instead. A compromise was later reached. When Alf retired from the council, Audrey held his seat for a while. On New Year's Eve 1998, the Roberts attended Nick Tilsley (Adam Rickitt)'s 18th birthday party at Gail's house. Worn out from dancing, Alf slumped onto an armchair where he suffered"
"Coronation Street) in its first two series and its general popularity as a whole, contributed to the BBC getting cold feet over the programme. A planned fourth series, scheduled for autumn 1968, was scrapped. The programme was revived in 1972, during a time when the BBC were reviving some of their more successful sitcoms from the 1960s for colour production (Steptoe and Son being an example). A contributory factor to this decision may have been that, since the ITV franchise changes of the summer of 1968, ITV had paid a lot more attention to making sitcoms, particularly those featuring, and"
"to go to London he makes Sophie the manager of Speed Daal. Ashleigh Middleton played Sophie from her birth up until March 1997 when Emma Woodward who was just three-years-old at the time took over the role. In 2004 Emma quit the role of Sophie to concentrate on her school work. The show's bosses ran auditions upon the announcement which resulted in her being replaced with Brooke Vincent, a patron of the Manchester Kids charity. In an interview Brooke revealed that her role in Coronation Street is just part of her life, stating she does not see it as a"
"but the BBC stayed firm, and Smith and Holland had to concede that, with the massive task of getting the Elstree Studios operational, January was the most realistic date. However, this was later to be changed to February. The project had a number of working titles—""Square Dance"", ""Round the Square"", ""Round the Houses"", ""London Pride"" and ""East 8"". It was the latter that stuck (E8 is the postcode for Hackney) in the early months of creative process. However, the show was renamed after many casting agents mistakenly thought the show was to be called ""Estate"", and the fictional postcode E20"
"newly commissioned ""Coronation Street"" set in a fictional working class district (""Weatherfield"") of Salford. Ida was married to Frank Barlow, a postman, and had two sons, Ken and David. She was written as a calm-natured, placid character who frequently had to act as mediator between her hot-headed husband and Ken, whose upwardly-mobile aspirations were seen by Frank as a rejection of his family background. The initial commission for ""Coronation Street"" ran to 13 episodes. The first episode was transmitted on 9 December 1960 and was panned by TV critics, who predicted a short-lived ignominious fate for the programme. However the"
"as Jack Rosenthal. Jack Rosenthal Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera ""Coronation Street"" and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. A street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester is named after him, appropriately next to a centre of contemporary art, theatre and film that opened in 2015, HOME. Rosenthal was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, into a Jewish family. After studying English Literature at Sheffield University, he carried out his National Service in the Royal Navy. He worked briefly in"
"feel that last year, the tabloids ran my life, and I am really excited about showing my fans what really happened, rather than all the stories, which have been misconstrued by journalists in the past. As I mentioned before, I am now going to be expressing my personal life through art"". The series was initially titled ""Britney and Kevin: Can You Handle Our Truth?"", before its title was changed to ""Britney and Kevin: Chaotic"", with ""Can you handle our truth?"" becoming its tagline. All of the footage shot for ""OnTourage"" was used for ""Britney and Kevin: Chaotic"". According to Spears,"
"has been known in the past to be a heartbreaker due to her troubled background and messy romantic history. During the character's first episode she clashes with regulars such as Jason Grimshaw, Anna Windass and Gary Windass, establishing the character's strong personality. A few weeks later she clashes with other strong characters such as Liz McDonald to whom Liz takes a disliking. Izzy's surname was initially intended to be Butterfield, although by the transmission of her first episode it had been changed to Armstrong. On her introduction to the programme, the character of Izzy was promoted as Coronation Street's first"
"as ""Coronation Street's"" executive producer. He was unhappy with the show's Corner Shop set and decided to implement changes. Podmore thought that employees Gail Potter (Helen Worth) and Tricia Hopkins (Kathy Jones) could not create an atmosphere of gossip that the shop had once created. He believed that in order to recreate it, a new mature female should be introduced. He originally planned the character of Renee to be independent, fun and feisty – an ideal to spar with pub landlady Annie Walker (Doris Speed) over alcohol sales. Podmore told Daran Little in his book ""The Coronation Street story"" that"
"linked to Ken's attack. However, Peter tells Simon, Toyah and the rest of his family that he was visiting Chloe, and an altercation lead to her face being cut. Peter later visits her to ask her to be his alibi, however Chloe lies to the police that Peter assaulted her and that this occurred on a separate night to when Ken was pushed down the stairs. In 1967, one of Coronation Street's biggest storylines took place, when the viaduct collapsed after a train derailed and fell into the street. Many of the show's popular characters including Ena Sharples (Violet Carson)"
"plan for New Copenhagen, the large area which was included in the fortified city when the old East Rampart along present day Gothersgade was decommissioned and a new one was built in a more northerly direction. According to the plan, the streets in the area were to be named after Danish territorial possessions, royalty and the upper classes. Dronningens Tværgade, the ""Queen's Cross Street"", was named after Queen Sophie Amalie, the consort of King Frederick III who had ascended the throne in 1648, and provided a direct connection between the King's Garden at Rosenborg and the future Queen's Garden at"
"name ""Queensborough"", however, did not appeal to London and it was Queen Victoria who named the city after Westminster, that part of the British capital of London where the Parliament Buildings were, and are to this day, situated. From this naming by the Queen, the City gained its official nickname, ""The Royal City"". A year later New Westminster became the first City in British Columbia to be incorporated and have an elected municipal government. It became a major outfitting point for prospectors coming to the Fraser Gold Rush, as all travel to the goldfield ports of Yale and Port Douglas"
"in 1909, after Sir Matthew Nathan, the 13th Governor who served between 1904 and 1907. The early Nathan Road was largely residential, with colonial-style houses with arched verandahs and covered archways. It was home to the Whitfield Barracks, which later became Kowloon Park. Saint Andrew's Church, the oldest Anglican church in Kowloon, has been located there since its completion in 1906. The section of the road from Gascoigne Road to Argyle Street was originally named Coronation Road (加冕道), in honour of the coronation of King George V in 1911. The road was renamed as part of Nathan Road in 1926,"
"of the street went from Front Street in the south to Lot Street (Queen Street today). It was originally called ""New Street"" and it was the first new north-south street in the first expansion of York. It was later renamed 'Nelson' and it was known as this during the time of the 1849 Great Fire of Toronto. The street was laid out in the first expansion of York, the east side being the original town site, and the west side being the site of the new public market (St. Lawrence Market). The commercial core of the town was at King"
"credited Elton with the fate of the show, saying that ""Coronation Street"" would never have seen the light of day without Elton's ""dogged determination"". When BBC Four aired a movie in 2010 dramatizing the creation of the show, ""The Road to Coronation Street"", the role of Harry Elton was played by Christian McKay. Upon returning to Canada in 1963, Elton discovered that ""Coronation Street"" was unknown to Canadians at that time. The show eventually debuted on Toronto’s CBLT in July 1966 and later became a large success in Canada, and continues to run on CBC Television to this day. With"
"something I've heard a lot. People say, 'When my mother was dying she saw my father' [...] It's a story I've heard a few people say. We're storytellers at the end of the day. Yes it's Coronation Street and yes it reflects real life, but we're storytellers."" Whilst Executive producer Kieran Roberts opined that he would be surprised if anyone thought it was the wrong decision. Jack appears in a theatrical version of the story of ""Coronation Street"" titled ""Corrie!"" in which Jack and Vera are shown as Terry sells their grandchild. In January 1985, David Porter of current affairs"
"he decides to stay in Weatherfield to look after them. When Ken learns of this, he persuades Sinead to get an abortion. When Sinead reveals to Daniel about the abortion, he breaks up with Sinead and attacks Ken that night. Daniel is not arrested as Ken tells the police that he tripped and no one pushed him. Since 1960, ""Coronation Street"" has featured many characters whose popularity with viewers and critics has differed greatly. The original cast was created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) and Annie Walker (Doris Speed) as"
"street, which used to be known as Praya Central during the Colonial Hong Kong era. Bowring's plans were opposed by British merchants who held lands in the Central area, and in response, the government instead commenced work in land reclamation in the Chinese-populated Western District. By the time the reclamation was extended to Central, the newly reclaimed land in Western had already been settled, and there was a discontinuity between the two roads running along the western and middle portions of the reclaimed shoreline. Upon completion, the roads were named Bowring Praya West and Bowring Praya Central respectively. Another series"
"Row"", due to the huge wealth of its private residents, although in fact the majority of its current occupants are either national embassies or ambassadorial residences. As of mid-2012, current market prices for a property in the street average over £22 million. It is immediately to the west of Kensington Gardens and connects Notting Hill Gate with Kensington High Street. The southern section of Kensington Palace Gardens is called Palace Green. The road was originally called The Queen's Road and was renamed Kensington Palace Gardens around 1870 when plane trees were planted in the avenue. It was built from the"
"the titles ""The Boston Tea Party "" and ""The Shot Heard ‘Round the World"". Both were originally shown on Disney´s anthology TV series in 1958. Louis Marx and Company released an American War of Independence playset featuring character figures of the actors in the show as a film tie-in. Around the time of the film's production, Walt Disney intended to build Liberty Street in Disneyland as an annex to Main Street USA. However, the project never materialized. After Walt's death, the concept was revived and turned into the much more expansive Liberty Square in Walt Disney World, which opened as"
"to a gambling habit and is a mess. She takes Tracy to a cliff and tries to commit suicide but Tracy confesses. As the factory is in tatters, Johnny Connor and son Aidan Connor and sister Kate Connor come to bail her out. On the morning of 1 March 2016, Coronation Street creator, Tony Warren, died, aged 79, after a ""short illness"" as confirmed by Coronation Street's Twitter account. Tributes were paid by cast members, past and present. In October 2016, David Platt attempted to get revenge on his wife Kylie's killer Clayton Hibbs by crashing his car into the"
"other constituencies within the City. Subsequent representations on the name were received and the Commission decided that, although justified on historical grounds, the name was ""not now entirely accurate"" and so proposed the renaming as suggested by the City Council. In initial proposals during the Third Periodical Review (1983), the Boundary Commission proposed to abolish the St Marylebone constituency and add four wards from it (Cavendish, Baker Street, Bryanston and Regents Park) to the previous City of London and Westminster South constituency; they provisionally named the result 'The City of London and Westminster'. After a local inquiry, the Regents Park"
"goes to see his son, Simon, perform in the nativity play in December 2008; however, he is refused entry as he is drunk. He fights his way through and ruins the play. In 2013, Kylie Platt arrives drunk at her son Max's nativity play and the Platt family is removed immediately when Kylie tries to drag Max off the stage. In June 2014, Kylie and David Platt are called in as Max has been disruptive during lessons. This later leads to him being diagnosed with ADHD. Coronation Street residents currently attending the school are Jack Webster, Hope Stape, Max Turner,"
"a mile away, the rents were low, and the residents of nearby Chinatown lacked the political power to keep them out. Originally, there was an attempt to name the area Liberty Tree Neighborhood after the Liberty Tree that once stood in the area, but the name did not catch on. Lower Washington Street was already part of Boston's entertainment district with a number of movie theaters, bars, delicatessens and restaurants that catered to night life. It was located between the classic, studio-built movie palaces such as the RKO-Keith and Paramount theaters and the stage theaters such as the Colonial on"
"worst of all with Peter Pitt (Trevor Bannister), a smooth-talking womaniser and burglar-alarm salesman. He only has two things in mind - to flog his alarms and meet women! Other regular characters include the glamorous man-eater Virginia (April Walker), an interfering Vicar (David Jackson), and a frustrated police sergeant, Springer (James Warrior). The show actually had the working title of ""Every Street Should Have One"" but this was changed at the last minute to ""Wyatt's Watchdogs"". The reason being that the BBC were transmitting the programme on Monday evenings straight after ITV's ""Coronation Street"" but before another BBC show called"
"series ""Wisteria Lane"" or ""The Secret Lives of Housewives"", but Cherry insisted on keeping the original title. He later commented, ""I put 'desperate' [into the title] to try to indicate, however subtly ... I'm going to have some fun with the imagery, to take it to some interesting places. Most critics got the joke. Some people see the word 'housewives' and it pushes a button in them and they seem to lose all reason."" The project was officially announced on October 23, 2003 as a cross between ""American Beauty"" and ""Knots Landing"". While ""Desperate Housewives"", along with fellow new series"